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  1. 12th March 2009, 15:42 #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by erik View Post
    I think someone posted about tank protectors being required for late model R6's by some race organisation overseas? I can't find the post though.
    The tank design makes them prone to wear through and catch fire, here's another one:
    http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=78770
    No mate it wasnt the R6 tank that split twas the duc TANK
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    depends how you look at cause...

    iirc, the ducati was hit by the r6, tank was punctured. Sparks from something then set it off...
    Some of the guys in the states were saying that they have to fit tank protectors to R6s for track days or racing at many of the tracks - supposedly quite a common issue.
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    Well, the r6 wasn't the ruptured tank, it was the ducs...

    We haven't had any issues with r6 tanks being ruptured on the track, and just sunday passed, an r6 (I think) highsided out of castrol, ripped the tank off and destroyed the tail section.

    Picking up the tank, it had had a good knock on the right side, but fuel was only coming out of the fuel feed, nowhere else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    Well, the r6 wasn't the ruptured tank, it was the ducs...

    We haven't had any issues with r6 tanks being ruptured on the track, and just sunday passed, an r6 (I think) highsided out of castrol, ripped the tank off and destroyed the tail section.

    Picking up the tank, it had had a good knock on the right side, but fuel was only coming out of the fuel feed, nowhere else.
    This one managed to spontaneously combust.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nQy7...eature=related
    Quote Originally Posted by Tank
    You say "no one wants to fuck with some large bloke on a really angry sounding bike" but the truth of the matter is that you are a balding middle-aged ice-cream seller from Edgecume who wears a hello kitty t-shirt (in your profile pic) and your angry sounding bike is a fucken hyoshit - not some big assed harley with a human skull on the front.
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    Yep, saw that one Noel, erik linked to it... quite scary, but I think someone mentioned no requirements to fit tank protectors here...

    Simply saying, we haven't encountered the issue here (yet)
    Quote Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
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